The Unlikable (Book One) // h.s. [COMPLETE]

Chapter 51

"Do you two even think before you behave the way that you do?" Alaric began his tyrant in the car as we drove home. I sat passenger to him while Harry sat in the back. I twisted in my seat to look at Harry and how he was responding to this and I was shocked when I saw him with a fat grin on his mouth. I frowned at him and turned back to face the front and crossed my arms over my chest. 

"If I behaved like that when I was your age..." Alaric shook his head in disbelief and then pointed his finger in the air. "My father would have beaten the living shit out of me. I mean, I'm obviously not going to do that. I'm fucking pissed enough to, but I'm not doing that. Harry, son, what the fuck have you done to Callie?" 

My chest fell into my rib cage, sinking into the seat. Shit, shit, shit. He's noticed all the purple marks. I tried my best to hide them with make up before we got on the plane. Harry even helped me. 

"It's nothing, Ric..." I flushed a bright red.

"Are you two being safe?" he intruded once more and I flung my hands up to my face to hide myself from the embarrassment.

"We're not having sex!" I exclaimed at the top of my lungs.

"Where are those from then?" Ric intruded more.

"I'm not telling you! Oh my god! Can you just take us home?! Stop with all the questions!" I freaked.

The car became silent and Alaric looked over at me for a second, noticing a shared glance between the two of us and turning up the radio and driving on home. I knew we'd have to talk about this later...

*****

It'd been days since I've seen Harry. I've texted him a few times and had a few midnight conversations on the phone when he couldn't sleep, but nothing other than that. He'd been so distant since we've been back. I've asked if he would like to come over and hang out or do anything, but he would just shoot me down, say that he has band practice or work at one of the stores.

I was at Minnie's today. It was the last day of Spring Break for everyone and hopefully people wouldn't even be in town to come in. Even though it was classified as spring it was still quite cold here unlike what I was used to in Florida. I had a grey knit sweater on with a lightweight pink cardigan over it and some skinny jeans with some of my old black toms. 

I sat at the desk waiting for customers to come in and eventually became bored and started searching online for a prom dress. After spending hours on the computer waiting for customers to come in and searching for the perfect dress, I heard gravel crunch on the driveway just behind me and between the music store.

I turned and looked through the window and saw Harry's suave black Range Rover. I watched from my seat as he opened the door and stepped foot by foot out of the car with his white Chucks on, his tight black skinny jeans, and long sleeved grey tshirt from some expensive french company. His hair was actually nice today, like he probably spent some time on it. The curls were pushed to the side per usual but they had some body to them. He looked extremely handsome. I was smiling as I looked at him, fawning over my own boyfriend from afar. 

I saw Daphne and Sabrina the Teenage Bitch walk behind him and into the building soon after him and I grabbed my phone to text him.

You look handsome today :) ~ Callie

I waited for his reply by staring at my phone praying for it to vibrate. Come on Harry, text me back. No, come talk to me. Come hug me. Come kiss me.

Are you at the boutique? ~ Harry

Yeah. I work until four then Ric is coming to get me~ Callie

He didn't text me back for more than ten minutes after that so I put my phone on the desk and went back to looking at prom dresses. He's probably busy. I mean, he has a job too...